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...at the time and although years have passed, it’s still painful for me to think about what he suffered. Anxiety about my own health has sharpened since having children. The...

The study was led by Dr Laura Woods and her colleagues Professor Bernard Rachet and Dr Ananya Malhotra at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Its findings show that...

...more effective detection, diagnosis and treatment. We directly fund research by offering grants to researchers in universities, research institutes and hospitals in the UK and Ireland. We also encourage the...

...friend, Andy Jeal. Andy, a former partner in a media buying agency, died of pancreatic cancer in March aged 56, having only been diagnosed in November last year. Says Gill,...

...for their help and advice, and most of all to our amazing mum Brenda, who supported us on the trek and with getting sponsorship. We also met another PCRF supporter,...

...pancreatic cancer, finding biomarkers to detect the disease in urine or blood and new imaging techniques both for diagnosis and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments. UroPanc: validating a test for...

...charity shops and used colourful paper from free glossy food magazines – the ones from Marks & Spencer and Asda were particularly good! Once the shops were stocking Christmas baubles...

...with chemotherapy agents. Anti-tumour antibodies normally recognise the common proteins associated with tumour cells. We have developed a means of purifying these tumour glycolipids and adapted a screening protocol that...

...session” long pockets and short arms are rare. “This year we managed to raise £1,500. At the end of the competition the overall champion gets the opportunity to choose a...

...and accurately by surgeons and oncologists; this should help them in their efforts to remove these metastatic tumours or treat them more accurately with directed radiotherapy. In addition, in experiments...